Re: Sony: The Return Of The Rootkit

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Quark IT - Hilton Travis schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
> Apparently Sony cannot learn from their past and have introduced another
> rootkit with another of their devices. This time it is their Microvault
> USB drive that has fingerprint security.

That is not exactly new news.

The devices are old and all that is "rootkit-like" about them is the fact that they interact with the kernel in order to hide their own files from corruption.

Not everything that interacts with the kernel is a rootkit. Or would anyone want to classify GRSecurity as a rootkit? RBAC will let you hide parts of your filesystem as well...

> Have a read of

Have another one:
http://observed.de/?entnum=101

Now I was outraged by Sony's Copyprotection Rootkit - but this is simply something different.

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Many Greetings
Paul

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